Adegoke Akinleye and Adediran Adewole were convicted of stealing their boss, Ibukun Sanusi, of 404 pieces of catfish by a Magistrates Court in Abeokuta, Ogun State’s capital.
Following their arraignment on two counts of felony and catfish theft worth N606,000, the defendants—ex-workers on a farm in Ilewo, Abeokuta—were sentenced on Wednesday by Justice O.O. Odumosu.
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She sentenced the two guilty individuals to six months in prison for the first violation and a year in prison for the second.
Odumosu, on the other hand, allowed the guilty the option of paying a N10,000 fine for each imprisonment sentence as long as they could compensate the complainant for the N606,000 they had been imprisoned for.
The prosecutor, Olakunle Shonibare, told the court that the offences committed on January 24, 2023, contravened Sections 516(1) and 382(2) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State.
The charge read in part; “That you, Akinleye Adegoke, Adewole Adediran and others at large on January 24, 2023 at about 12noon at Abidelep Farm and Agro-Service Limited, Ilewo, Orile, Abeokuta in the magisterial district did conspire to commit felony and thereby committed an offence contrary and punishable under Section 516(1) of the Criminal Laws of Ogun State.
That you, Akinleye Adegoke, Adewole Adediran and others at large on the same date, time and place in the aforesaid magisterial district did steal 404 pieces of catfish valued at N606,000 property of one Mrs Sanusi Ibukun and thereby committed an offence contrary and punishable under Section 382(2) of the Criminal Code Laws of Ogun State.”
